[Piuparts-devel] test candidates for file conflicts between releases

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2012-03-22 11:48, Ralf Treinen wrote:
>> * apt does not find a solution for partial upgrades/downgrades even if
>> dose-debcheck said this is possible, I'll have a look at aptitude
> 
> this may happen, probably due to the build-in strategy of apt that tries
> to upgrade packages to the latest version. Dose-debcheck does not use
> such a strategy, and happily constructs solutions that involve old
> versions of packages.

dose-debcheck can output the list of packages to be installed ... if I
can somehow get this in a pkg1=ver1 pkg2=ver2 ... form I should be able
to give apt a valid solution ... *thinking* ...

I haven't checked current git, but dose-debcheck is quite noisy about
identical (package,version,arch) tuples in both wheezy and sid etc.

Andreas